The new Intel Core Ultra 200V generation of the company’s x86 processor is now out, which promises long battery life for portable laptops that compete with Arm-equipped machines.
These new Intel Core Ultra 200V are the first from Intel to be manufactured by TSMC using an efficient 3nm N3B process for the compute tile and N6 for the platform tile. With this new design, the company claims it can provide more than 20 hours of battery life.
Codenamed Lunar Lake, there are nine chips available in the series, which come in Intel Core Ultra 5, 7, and 9 models. All these new CPUs come with 4x performance cores, 4x efficiency cores, and 8 threads, with no hyperthreading.
Intel says the new chips provide 50% better power efficiency than its predecessors.
The cheapest model, the new Intel Core Ultra 5, comes with performance cores clocked at 4.5GHz, efficiency cores at 3.5GHz, 17W base power, 8MB L3 cache, and 37W max turbo.
For the top-tier Intel Core Ultra 9 288V, we have performance cores at 5.1GHz, efficiency cores at 3.7GHz, 12MB L3 cache, 30W base power, and 37W on max turbo.
The new chips also come with the new Intel Xe2 built-in GPU that offers up to 67TOPs of power. It provides 1.5x better performance than its predecessor.
For AI tasks, it will feature a new NPU with up to 48 TOPS of power on the 6x Gen4 version. The new chip also supports Thunderbolt 4 ports, PCI-E 5, USB 4.0, DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 5.4, and the latest WiFi 7 connectivity.
For some reason, the new chips come with built-in 16GB or 32GB dual-channel LPDDR5x-8533 RAM that you won’t be able to upgrade in the future. Intel defended itself by saying that this design helped improve power efficiency.
The new Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series will come in laptops arriving later this month from brands like Lenovo, ASUS, HP, Dell, and more.